IPod Showing Less Space Than It Should

Hi
I've got a 4G 40GB iPod which I use for both music and storing data. Now I've just removed a few GBs of work I had stored on there leaving only about 100 MB of files. My iTunes library comes to 33GB but my iPod says I only have 700 MB spare.
Now I know its capacity is really only about 37GB but that should still leave me with another 3Gb of current free space.
Are there some kind of hidden files or have the files I moved to the trash not actually been removed?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I feel so ashamed.
I was just returning to the board to withdraw this question as I realised I hadn't actually dumped the trash.
Thanks for your quick reply though. Much appreciated.
I'm off to soak my head.

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